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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

By: Tony Hsieh

Business Plus

The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success.

Pay new employees $2000 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Help employees grow both personally and professionally. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too.

Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales every year.

In 1999, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and inves...

The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hay...

By: F. A. Hayek

University Of Chicago Press

Outliers: The Story of Success

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Little, Brown and Company

Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Now that he's gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions, Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in Outliers: why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential? Challenging our cherished belief of the "self-made man," he makes the democratic assertion that superstars don't arise out of nowhere, propelled by genius and talent: "they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot." Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, he builds a convincing ca...

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By: Michael Lewis

W. W. Norton & Company

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StrengthsFinder 2.0: From the Author of the Bestseller Wellbeing

By: Tom Rath

Gallup Press

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KaChing: How to Run an Online Business that Pays and Pays

By: Joel Comm

Wiley

Praise for KaChing

"Turning your passion into profit is Joel's keystone in life, and he possesses the uncanny ability to deliver a clear road map enabling precise results, again and again. Follow Joel's formulas for creating revenue streams online and you'll discover a whole new level of decisive confidence, both online and in life."
Gary W. Goldstein, Hollywood Movie Producer

"If you can't make money online after reading Joel Comm's KaChing, you should not be allowed to drive a car or operate large machinery! Joel Comm could not have made your path to internet wealth more clear or simple. KaChing is a step-by-step guide to defining your niche, creating salable content, and driving paying customers to your si...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

By: Stephen R. Covey

Free Press

"A wonderful book that could change your life" Tom Peters, bestselling author of In Search of Excellence. Covey presents a holistic, intergrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step by step, and human dignity principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

By: Jim Collins

HarperBusiness

Outline's Best of 2001 Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes tha

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Crown Business

Chip Heath and Dan Heath on Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

"Change is hard." "People hate change." Those were two of the most common quotes we heard when we began to study change.

But it occurred to us that if people hate change, they have a funny way of showing it. Every iPhone sold serves as counter-evidence. So does every text message sent, every corporate merger finalized, every aluminum can recycled. And we havent even mentioned the biggest changes: Getting married. Having kids. (If people hate change, then having a kid is an awfully dumb deci...

The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 12th Edition

By: Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)

Wiley

The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 12th Edition is the only book on the market written by the creators of the GMAT exam. Inside youll find more than 800 actual GMAT questions from previous tests with answers and detailed explanations. Theres also a grammar review, math review, actual essay topics, sample responses, and scoring information insights into the GMAT exam that debunk test-taking myths. Plus, use the diagnostic section to pinpoint your skill level and focus on the areas where you need the most help.

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutti...

By: Timothy Ferriss

Crown Archetype

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay Books

This is the best book written by Malcolm Gladwell in my opinion. This is the book that started it all for him. Autographed by the man himself from a talk he did in Santa Barbara, California.

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

By: Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff

Princeton University Press

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)

By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Harper Perennial

Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the exi...

Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It

By: Marshall Goldsmith

Hyperion

Mojo is the moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about that moment--and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it.

In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, #1 executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shares the ways in which to get--and keep--our Mojo. Our professional and personal Mojo is impacted by four key factors: identity (who do you think you are?), achievement (what have you done lately?), reputation (who do other people think you are--and what have you've done lately?), and acceptance (what can you change--and when do you need to just "let it go"?). Goldsmi...

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

By: Daniel H. Pink

Riverhead Hardcover

hardback, Riverhead Hardcover,by Daniel H. Pink

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By: David Allen

Penguin (Non-Classics)

With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.

Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal...

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

By: Spencer Johnson

G. P. Putnam's Sons

Deal with change. #1 Bestseller book by Spencer Johnson, M.D. talks about how to deal with change in life and in the workplace.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay Books

Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.

Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our...

Rework

By: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Crown Business

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What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

By: Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

Hyperion

Americas most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder

The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. Theyre intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmiths straightforward, jargonfree advice, its amazingly easy behavior to change.

Executives who hire Goldsmith for one-on-one coa...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)

By: Patrick Lencioni

Jossey-Bass

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech?s CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni?s utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why t...

Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown

By: David Wiedemer, Robert Wiedemer, Cindy Spitzer

Wiley

BRAND NEW 2009 HARDBACK EDITION. SOME SHELFWEAR MARKS. WE SHIP MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit and Drives Tomorrow's Growth

By: Inder Sidhu

FT Press

“Doing Both shows how Cisco turns business questions into market answers, offering real-life examples that will benefit forward-looking leaders.”

Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO, GE

“The best business books build around a single idea, often contrarian and counterintuitive. Everyone knows you can’t have your cake and eat it, too. One of the first things you learn at business school is that management is about making difficult choices. Well, not always. This book persuades the reader that in decision making and’ is often bette...

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: (Pmbok Guide)

Project Management Institute

BRAND NEW - 4TH / FOURTH EDITION

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

By: Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

Wiley

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.

Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematical...

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

By: Roger Fisher, William L. Ury

Penguin (Non-Classics)

We're constantly negotiating in our lives, whether it's convincing the kids to do their homework or settling million-dollar lawsuits. For those who need help winning these battles, Roger Fisher has developed a simple and straightforward five-step system for how to behave in negotiations. Narrated soothingly by NPR announcer Bob Edwards, Fisher adds the meaty portions of the material with a sense of playfulness. The blend of voices makes this tape easy to listen to, especially the real-life negotiating scenarios, in which negotiating examples are given. This is a must-have tape for every businessperson's car. (Running time: one hour, one cassette) --Sharon Griggins

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

By: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey

McGraw-Hill

Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

"Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history."--Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

A powerful, seven-step approach to handling difficult conversations with confidence and skill

"Crucial" conversations are interpersonal exchanges at work or at home that we dread having but know we cannot avoid. How do you say what needs to be said while avoiding an argument with a boss, child, or relationship partn...

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

By: Dave Ramsey

Thomas Nelson

The success stories speak for themselves in this book from money maestro Dave Ramsey. Instead of promising the normal dose of quick fixes, Ramsey offers a bold, no-nonsense approach to money matters, providing not only the how-to but also a grounded and uplifting hope for getting out of debt and achieving total financial health.

Ramsey debunks the many myths of money (exposing the dangers of cash advance, rent-to-own, debt consolidation) and attacks the illusions and downright deceptions of the American dream, which encourages nothing but overspending and massive amounts of debt. "Don't even consider keeping up with the Joneses," Ramsey declares in his typically candid style. "They're broke!"

The Total Money Makeover isn't theory. It works every single time. It...

Shift: How to Reinvent Your Business, Your Career, and Your Personal Brand

By: Peter Arnell

Crown Business

Matt Tyrnauer Reviews Shift

Matt Tyrnauer is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and a filmmaker. His documentary feature film, Valentino: The Last Emperor, was short-listed for an Academy Award for best documentary feature.

Advertising guru, branding god, industrial design maven, and man about New York Peter Arnell has written an astonishing, emotional, revealing, and very honest memoir in the form of a self-help book. Shift reveals how Arnell rose up from a bright and industrious kid in the last years of the old, innocent Brooklyn to make his mark in the rough worl...

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

By: Sebastian Mallaby

Penguin Press HC, The

The first authoritative history of hedge funds-from their rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future of finance.

Based on author Sebastian Mallaby's unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007- 2009.

Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-firstcentury capitalism. Ken Griffin of Citadel started out trading convertible bonds from his dorm room at Harvard. Julian Robertson staffed his hedge fund with college athletes half his age, then he flew them to various retreats in the Rockies and raced them up the m...

How To Win Friends and Influence People

By: Dale Carnegie

Simon & Schuster

This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone wa...

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robu...

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb continues his exploration of randomness in his fascinating new book, The Black Swan, in which he examines the influence of highly improbable and unpredictable events that have massive impact. Engaging and enlightening, The Black Swan is a book that may change the way you think about the world, a book that Chris Anderson calls, "a delightful romp through history, economics, and the frailties of human nature." See Anderson's entire guest review below.

The 48 Laws of Power

By: Robert Greene

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), the virtue of stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and many demand the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"), but like it or not, all have applications in real life. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded--or ...

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Re...

By: Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig

Collins Business

PREFACE AND APPENDIX BY WARREN E. BUFFETT

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

By: Dan Ariely

Harper Perennial

Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin?

Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup?

When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we're making smart, rational choices. But are we?

In this newly revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, we consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable—making us pred...

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life...

By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

William Morrow

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Liar's Poker

By: Michael Lewis

W. W. Norton & Company

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liars Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Streets premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liars Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied yearsa behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewiss knowing and hilariou...

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class ...

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Business Plus

Personal finance author and lecturer Robert T. Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective from two very different influences - his two fathers. This text lays out Kiyosaki's philosophy and his relationship with money.

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

By: Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm

Penguin Press HC, The

BRAND NEW 2010 HARDBACK EDITION, SOME SHELFWEAR MARKS. OVERSTOCK MARK

Now, Discover Your Strengths

By: Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton

Free Press

Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following up on the coauthors' popular previous book, First, Break All the Rules, it fully describes 34 positive personality themes the two have formulated (such as Achiever, Developer, Learner, and Maximizer) and explains how to build a "strengths-based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within ...

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Random House

Whether you are a CEO or full-time mom, you've got ideas that you need to communicate: a new product coming to market, a strategy you want to sell your boss, values you are trying to instill in your children. But it's hard-fiendishly so- to transform the way people think and act. IN this book you'll learn the six key qualities of an idea that is made to stick.

What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

By: Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins

Harper Paperbacks

He says that's his best offer. Is it?

She says she agrees. Does she?

The interview went great—or did it?

He said he'd never do it again. But he did.

Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you. You will discover:

• The ancient survival instincts that drive body language
• Why the face is the least likely place to gauge a person's true fe...

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

By: Michael Lewis

W. W. Norton & Company

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.

Lewis ...

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

By: Dan Ariely

Harper

The provocative follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Predictably Irrational

• Why can large bonuses make CEOs less productive?
• How can confusing directions actually help us?
• Why is revenge so important to us?
• Why is there such a big difference between what we think will make us happy and what really makes us happy?

In his groundbreaking book Predictably Irrational, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, in The Upside of Irrationality, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives. Focusing on our behaviors at work and in relationships, he offers new insights and eye-openi...

The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review, 2nd Edition

By: Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)

Wiley

The only official quantitative review for the GMAT from the creators of the test

Anyone preparing for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) knows it's important to study with the experts. With The Official Guide for the GMAT Quantitative Review, Second Edition, you'll get questions, answers, and explanations straight from the source. The only official quantitative review for the GMAT Exam, this book targets your study and helps you improve your quantitative skills by focusing on your ability to solve equations, interpret data, coordinate geometry, and determine probability with assurance and ease. Inside, you'll find

• 300 actual questions from past GMAT tests, including 75 questions new to this edition
• Sections on Arithmetic, Al...

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

By: Michael E. Gerber

HarperCollins

In this first new and totally revised edition of the over two million copy bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. Next, he walks you through the steps in the life of a business -- from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed -- and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether it is a franchise or not. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. After you have read The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predi...

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

By: Barbara Ehrenreich, Frances Fox Piven

Holt Paperbacks

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

By: Daniel H. Pink

Riverhead Trade

Why right brainers will rule the future.Author Daniel H. Pink explains,gone is the age of left-brain dominance.A whole new mind takes readers to a daring new place,and offers a provocative and urgent new way of thinking about a future that has already arrived.Drawing on reasearch from around the world.Long on readable analysis and exercises to build right brain skills.This is a great book for Liberal Arts Graduates.A New York Times and Business Week Bestseller.

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

By: Matt Ridley

Harper

Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying this for two hundred years.

Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit o...